After receiving Guan Tong's call, Shangyuan Zi immediately rushed to the Detox Center.
When she arrived, Guan Tong and Shi Jingyi were in the monitoring room.
"Did you find anything?"
She asked Guan Tong, trying to keep her voice calm.
But inside, she could not calm down at all.
Anyone who had spoken at length with someone yesterday, only to learn the next day that they had committed suicide, would find it impossible to accept—perhaps even wonder whether that person's suicide had something to do with them. Otherwise, why had everything been fine before, only for them to commit suicide the day after talking with her?
"I couldn't see anything from the surveillance footage. Other than your visit, no one besides doctors and nurses entered Suzuki's room or came into contact with her."
"..."
"Don't overthink it. I don't mean to suspect you." Guan Tong frowned. "But she couldn't have suddenly committed suicide for no reason. There had to be a cause."
"How did she commit suicide?" Shangyuan Zi asked. "There shouldn't have been any..."
The doctor answered, "Hanging. However, she probably used some kind of item she bought with Ascension Coins. Our Detox Center has regulations forbidding any dangerous objects in patients' rooms—even the walls are padded."
After speaking, the doctor looked at Guan Tong. "Sir, forgive me for being blunt, but I don't think there was any conspiracy behind Miss Suzuki's death, much less murder. She most likely couldn't bear the pain any longer."
"Pain?"
"...You may not understand. Once addiction to Alien Spore flares up, it plunges people into extreme agony—far worse than any other addiction.
"Ordinary people can't endure it after only a few episodes. Even Ascenders, despite their much stronger physiques, can't withstand it over the long term... Miss Suzuki is far from the only